Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 214
d gives a name tothe place; I therefore recommended the above design as a properobject to attract notice in the approach, which is one of the mostinteresting and romantic.^ ° After passing through a wood, the road arrives at a cottage on the side of a hill,from whence the house appears across a… … JCn/>,a^£^ to £ia^:^ Ca->cU In determining the sort of entrance proper for BlaizeCastle, the name of the place caused some difficulty; the houseto which the castle belongs, neither does nor ought to partakeof anv Gothic character, yet there appeared some incongruity inmaking the entrance in…